In Chongqing Unicun station, a container neatly stacked, eight 40-ton rail gantry crane up and down, a truck in which the orderly shuttle ......
On August 30, the reporter followed the National Railway Group into the western land and sea new channel united village station and other sites, feel the western land and sea new channel iron and sea intermodal liner from scratch, from the trial run to normalization, from a line to a network of changes, and its show a good momentum of development.
Accelerating Construction and Continuously Improving Infrastructure Network
On March 19, 2011, the first international train from Chongqing to Duisburg, Germany was explored and started in Tuanjincun Station, which opened the prelude of China-Europe liner connecting Asia and Europe. Zhang Xin, then station manager of Chongqing Tuanjucun Station, recalled, "Previously, Tuanjucun Station was just a small fourth-class station surrounded by farmland, with no more than 20 employees, but today, there are more than 600 employees and stevedores here."
On April 28, 2017, the first "Yu Gui Xin" southbound channel trial run train from Guangxi Qinzhou Port Station, sailing to Chongqing Unity Village Station, officially opened the western land and sea new channel construction prelude.
Now united village railroad center station, southeast, northwest and north international channel "four-way flush", iron, public water and air "four" intermodal transport, become a connection between "one belt" and "one way". The land and sea linkage channel connecting "one belt" and "one road", the land and sea trade channel supporting the western region to participate in international economic cooperation, and the comprehensive transportation channel promoting the deep integration of transportation and logistics economy are the important nodes.
The change of Unity Village Station is a microcosm of many small freight stations. With the advancement of the construction of the new western land and sea corridor, the small South Pass Station, Qinzhou Port East Station ...... was once a small freight station, a leap into the "Avenue Hub". At the same time, Chongqing Orchard Port through the Yangtze River Gold Waterway, becoming the largest river iron, public water multimodal intermodal transportation hub port.
Adjacent to the Unity Village Container Center Station in Chongqing, a waterless port project has been completed in June this year. As a landmark project of the new western land and sea corridor, Chongqing Waterless Port will further enhance the connectivity level of the new western land and sea corridor after it is put into use.
The State Railway Group has optimized the operation of the liner train through a multifaceted and integrated operation, and the number of liner trains operating in the Western Land-Sea New Corridor has grown strongly.
From 2017 to 2022, the number of containerized cargoes sent by rail-sea intermodal liner train of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor will be 3,382 TEUs, 53,400 TEUs, 94,000 TEUs, 313,000 TEUs, 632,000 TEUs, and 756,000 TEUs, which is a 223-fold increase in 6 years.
Weaving lines into a network from the radiation of the west to integrate into the world
Walking into the North Yard of Chongqing Yuzui Railway Freight Station, the reporter saw a commodity car being driven into the train container in an orderly manner. Soon after, they will go all the way south, in Guangxi Qinzhou port to the sea, and eventually sold to Southeast Asia and other places.
Changan Automobile vehicle logistics senior manager Wang Di calculated the account, the company's production of automobiles from Chongqing by western land and sea new channel iron and sea intermodal liner to Guangxi Qinzhou port to the sea, than by the eastern region to the sea to save 15 to 20 days, the transportation cost is further reduced, and the quality of vehicular transportation is guaranteed.
It is reported that the western land and sea new channel to Chongqing as the operation center, the western provinces and municipalities as the key nodes, the use of railroads, shipping, highways and other modes of transport to the south through Guangxi, Yunnan and other coastal ports around the world, to promote the cracking of the western region of China's international logistics problems, and promote the opening up of the development of the western region.
Today, from Cambodian rice to Thailand's perfumed coconut, mangosteen, as well as Vietnam's passion fruit, durian ...... more and more agricultural products from ASEAN countries are constantly entering the Chinese market through the new land and sea corridors. And China's new energy, new materials and other products using the customs integration model, to the Customs to complete the export declaration, it can be seamlessly transported to foreign countries through the railroad and shipping.
Over the past six years, the western land and sea new channel iron and sea transport liner to realize the line and surface, forming a network of changes. Liner lines from the initial only Beibu Gulf - Chongqing 1, the development of today's normalization of Beibu Gulf Port - Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Henan, Gui Dong and Gui Bei 7, and in Chongqing and the Chinese-European liner to achieve a seamless connection.
The scope of radiation has increased to 18 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government), 61 cities, 120 stations, the flow of goods to 119 countries and regions around the world to 393 ports. Transportation categories from the initial ceramics, plates and other 50 kinds of increase to the current grain, auto parts, computer parts, decorative materials, such as more than 940 kinds of.